08-30-2005, 13:07
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Posts: 12
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Gentelmen,
This would be my first time to the site and it is an honor to have been invited and vetted by the Nations Elite. I would like to introduce myself, My name is Greg. I am a former Green Beret with 5th SFG(A), 11B and 11C with the 82nd and 75th RGR. Currently, I do the same work that I did as an 18 series and then some. I am based out of Phoenix, AZ now mainly because this is the location of the company myself and 9 other former Green Berets have set up.
Anyway, I look forward to checking out the site daily now and hearing from past and present operators. Stay safe.
DE OPPRESSO LIBER
Greg
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08-30-2005, 21:51
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Camp Casey
Posts: 16
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Good evening and...
Hello~
I'm am very glad to have found this website and thank each of you personally for contributing to its excellence!
Now, I'll 'do my best' not to disrupt that...lol.
Over the last couple of years I’ve been training in mixed martial arts and Kali.
Being around great instructors and other students has encouraged me to seek my place in the Army.
I’m fit and healthy now and simply refuse to let this opportunity pass.
Blessings,
Kairos
Last edited by kairos_180; 08-30-2005 at 21:58.
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08-30-2005, 21:59
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#1338
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
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Welcome aboard.
Welcome Brother Greg.
Enjoy the board.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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08-31-2005, 09:59
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Northern VA
Posts: 45
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Another FOG
Hello brothers. Just found this place and wanted to see who hangs out in this AO. I'm a retired 5th GRP "bubble blower". Holler at me.
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08-31-2005, 15:44
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
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Welcome Brother Sharkman
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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08-31-2005, 18:45
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Vermont
Posts: 3,093
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Welcome Sharkman
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Wenn einer von uns fallen sollt, der Andere steht für zwei.
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08-31-2005, 20:30
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 982
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Welcome aboard Folks.
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08-31-2005, 23:23
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Asset
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: FOB Kelsu, Iraq
Posts: 1
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Greetings from the Green Zone,
I am a former Army Ranger, currently doing PSD work in Baghdad. Been here for 18 months now. I feel lucky to be here and do my part, and lucky in many ways to still be in one piece  .
I have met many former SF dudes working over here, including an ex SF medic named "Sean" ( I think) who helped patch me up back in July of 2004 up near Mosul. I have been trying to find him to thank him for the help. He was working at a Iraqi army base called Al Kisik We rolled in with a bunch of shot up guys and he took care of us until the choppers arrived. Anyhow, I just wanted to let him know that everyone made it ok.
I was lucky to attend the phase 2 SF 12B course way back in 1981 and managed to graduate, but that was all the 2nd Ranger Bn. would allow me to attend. Have things changed much since then?  .
I also attended SOT school out at Mott Lake in 1979.
Oh, I would like to someday get back in contact with my old Ranger buddy from Ranger school named Jim Clarey (Clary?) who was a 12B in 5th Group I think, an E-7 around 1982 so he might be out now...
Great forum!
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09-01-2005, 07:42
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Asset
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Methuen, MA
Posts: 4
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Quick note
Hello all.
Im Jim Hollingsworth. My father Gary L. Hollingsworth served with SF in Okinawa, Thailand and then in Vietnam with CCN (RT Alaska, 1971) where he was KIA while on patrol. He was lost with Dale Dehnke (KIA) and Danny Entrican (MIA). I am collecting information on these men as well as trying to make connections with people who may have served with them over their short SF careers.
I am a life member of SOA and have met many wonderful people whom I still keep in touch with. Any information or questions can be directed to rtalaska@jimhollingsworth.com. Pictures of Gary, Dale and Danny can also be found on www.jimhollingsworth.com.
Regards.
Jim Hollingsworth
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09-02-2005, 01:00
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Asset
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Whidby Island, WA
Posts: 2
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Hello
Hello folks,
I stumbled across this site on a google search for Dan Shungle (RIP).
I originally missed where to put my introductory post. I retired in 1998 as a 180 and spent most of my time in Asia.
Although I'm old and broke, after 9/11 I volunteered my services where ever they could be used. after depaarting from my family for two and a half years, I took a job instructing on the west coast.
I do what i can to support the effort, and support the community.
Mark Archer
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09-02-2005, 08:07
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#1346
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Oregon, Land of the Silver Grey Sunsets
Posts: 3,886
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Welcome aboard Guys,
You are among friends here.
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09-02-2005, 10:47
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
Posts: 24,811
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Welcome Gents!
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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09-02-2005, 11:50
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 293
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Welcome Sharkman!
Hey Partner, see you're in N.VA...Drop me a PM and maybe we can link-up. Quite a few guys who in the AO who ride scoots when we're around. Got a good mix of SF/SEALs both active and retired...
One-Zero
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09-02-2005, 18:27
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Asset
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 8
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Hi, I'm new
I'm new here, my name is Philip C. Learned II, I'm 16 3/4 years old and Sept. 8th I'll be starting my junior year in highschool (after which I plan on joining the Army in the DEP with an 18x), I've been obsessed with the military for a really long time now, some bad things happened in my life and gathering military info/dreaming of specops and computers became my two obsessions
I'm here to try and get information about US Special Forces and what I can do to increase my odds of making it onto an A-team
I workout daily and run, I've got work to do on myself as far as physically preparing, but I'm getting there, my upper body strength is much better than my lower body strength and my running is just pathetic, as is my swimming, as of now I ace the situp and pushups sections of the APFT, but i hardly even get a single point on the running, which drives me insane, my legs and body are going through the "toughening phase" with all this running I've been doing, at least according to my workout docs (the ones provided by the Army for SF hopefuls)
I guess I don't have much else to say other than I'm just a wannabee here who wants an 18x and SF and is willing to make it happen
I think dinners digested, I'm gonna go run now, I just figured I'd post my info and introduce myself here so I don't act like an idiot and post because I'd forgotten to do it
edit: ah, don't hide it Hemi, face the weakness, own it, destroy it!
MY 2 MILE RUNE TIME IS 21 MINUTES! as soon as I can get my run time down to 13 and get decent at swimming I should be gravy for OSUT/AIT and Jumpschool, as far as my fitness is concerned
but I'm not there yet, now turn off your rage against the machine and run your sorry ass! (me talking to me, i do it a lot)
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Someday I'll get there
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09-02-2005, 19:19
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
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Originally Posted by hemi5p
I'm new here, my name is Philip C. Learned II, I'm 16 3/4 years old and Sept. 8th I'll be starting my junior year in highschool (after which I plan on joining the Army in the DEP with an 18x), I've been obsessed with the military for a really long time now, some bad things happened in my life and gathering military info/dreaming of specops and computers became my two obsessions
I'm here to try and get information about US Special Forces and what I can do to increase my odds of making it onto an A-team
I workout daily and run, I've got work to do on myself as far as physically preparing, but I'm getting there, my upper body strength is much better than my lower body strength and my running is just pathetic, as is my swimming, as of now I ace the situp and pushups sections of the APFT, but i hardly even get a single point on the running, which drives me insane, my legs and body are going through the "toughening phase" with all this running I've been doing, at least according to my workout docs (the ones provided by the Army for SF hopefuls)
I guess I don't have much else to say other than I'm just a wannabee here who wants an 18x and SF and is willing to make it happen
I think dinners digested, I'm gonna go run now, I just figured I'd post my info and introduce myself here so I don't act like an idiot and post because I'd forgotten to do it
edit: ah, don't hide it Hemi, face the weakness, own it, destroy it!
MY 2 MILE RUNE TIME IS 21 MINUTES! as soon as I can get my run time down to 13 and get decent at swimming I should be gravy for OSUT/AIT and Jumpschool, as far as my fitness is concerned
but I'm not there yet, now turn off your rage against the machine and run your sorry ass! (me talking to me, i do it a lot)
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You're scaring me. First of all, its ok to talk to yourself, until you start answering yourself. You sound like you're about there. Keep working on your physical conditioning - it does a body good. But don't worry too much about next year. You're almost 17, you should be studying, playing sports, enjoying your youth and trying to get laid as much as possible.
Don't worry about SF for now. The war will still be going when you're 20. And if not, we'll start another one for you.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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